72 Catalogue of Dr. A. Clarke's Manuscripts. 



tastefully selected, and well executed. To the titles of many of the MSS. 

 are also added quotations from their contents : thus a poem, p. 70. entitled 

 "The goode Wif thaught hir doughter fele time and often gode woman for 

 to be," commences, 



•'©ougl)lcr, gif tfjou toUt hm a ffliHif ?f toiselitl)£ toertfi, 

 TLokt tl)at tI;ou lobe tocll gotj 8c I)oIb cl^crtl^ ; 

 ffio to f.\)zxii) tof)cn ti)ou mogi!), Icttc for no regix ; 

 ■an tl)c ijaj) ti)ou (arcst tljc bctu tljat ti^ou I^ast goU gstgn. 

 JMell t!)rBUcH; tl)at golf lobel}), mn tlert cf;tlllc." 



From the end of John Wesley's journal and account-book, we extract 

 the following entry : 



"N. B. For upwards of eighty-sLx years I have kept my accounts exactly : I will 

 not attempt it any longer, being satisfied with the continual conviction that I save 

 all I can, and give all I can, that is all I have. John Wesley." 



Prefixed to the catalogue of the Hebrew MSS. is a very curious account 

 of the Jewish method of preparing the parchment, making the ink, forming 

 the letters, stitching the sheets together, and destroying, by burial, the old 

 MSS. ; together with a number of other similar observances, all placed 

 under the sanction of the Jewish religion. 



The catalogue of the oriental MSS. occupies the latter half of the volume, 

 and the translations given from the Persian poets, evidently executed with 

 much of the spirit of the original, are exquisitely beautiful : take the follow- 

 ing for instance, the "Prayer of Khosroo," p. 142, by that accomplished 

 Orientalist, the late C. Fox, of Bristol, which, as a devotional hymn, has 

 rarely been surpassed. 



" Father of those, who yet on Earth 



Pursue their toilsome way, 



Support of all things here below, 



Whom all in Heaven obey : 



How boundless thy beneficence. 



Which liberall}' imparts 

 Joy to the wretched who rely 



On thee with faithful hearts ! 



And all mankind who humbly ask 



Of Thee, in fervent prayer, 

 Forgiveness of their numerous sins, 



Shall all thy mercy share. 



One drop of water from the Fount 



Of thine eternal Love, 

 From the dark Record of our sins 



Can all their sum remove. 



